By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.

People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.

I definitely know that love is the most powerful thing of all.

That will be my focus: building a culture that moves away from militarism.

To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy.

I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.

The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.

The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.

Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.